Tessie

femaleStatistical record

What official birth registration shows about Tessie: which national registrars published it, in which years, and how its recorded position changed.

No researched meaning, origin or pronunciation yet — what that means.

3registrars recorded it
12times a registrar ranked it
17years from first to last
#350highest recorded position
4groupings it qualifies for

Region

Rising

among girls in England and Wales · 2005–2021

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England and Wales · Girls rank by year
Year	Rank
2005	#4798
2014	#5691
2015	#3615
2016	#3609
2018	#5666
2019	#4686
2020	#5493
2021	#3961

VerifiedSource: Office for National Statistics — Baby Names in England and Wales.Confidence: high.

See all England and Wales names · Source: Office for National Statistics — Baby Names in England and Wales

What the data shows

RisingEngland and Wales · Girls

Recorded in official data among girls in England and Wales in 8 of the 17 years from 2005 to 2021.

In 2021: #350 among girls in Northern Ireland, #883 among girls in Republic of Ireland, #3961 among girls in England and Wales.

Official data from 3 national registrars across 3 regions, 2005–2021 · Office for National Statistics. Data sources

Popularity journey

First recorded2005
First recorded at #4798 among girls in England and Wales in 2005 — the earliest year that source publishes this name, not necessarily the earliest it was used.
England and Wales · Girls
Most recent2021
Most recently recorded at #3961 among girls in England and Wales, in 2021.
England and Wales · Girls

Tessie appears in 2 of the published lists Namewise holds. The longest record is England and Wales · Girls, which has ranked it in 8 years beginning in 2005, and has registered 33 births with the name.

Tessie across 2 official records

Each registrar publishes its own list, so these figures are read down a row, never across one. A position in one country is not comparable with a position in another, and Namewise never combines them into a single ranking. The birth counts do not compare across rows either, for a different reason: England and Wales registers roughly thirty times as many births a year as Northern Ireland, so a larger total says which registrar recorded it as much as how widely the name was given.

Tessie's first, highest and most recent recorded position in each official list, with the number of births each registrar registered with the name and its largest single year
Published list	First recorded	Highest	Most recent	Years recorded	Births registered	Most in one year
England and Wales · Girls	#4798 (2005)	#3609 (2016)	#3961 (2021)	8 of 17	33 (2005–2021)	6 (2015)
Republic of Ireland · Girls	#876 (2014)	#876 (2014)	#883 (2021)	3 of 8	9 (2014–2021)	3 (2014)

Tessie by decade in England and Wales · Girls

Births registered with the name in each decade of this one list, with the number of years the list covers in that decade. Bars are scaled on births a year, which is the figure that compares between decades — a decade the list only partly covers has a smaller total without being a quieter decade. Figures belong to this registrar alone and do not carry to another.

Births registered with Tessie in England and Wales · Girls, by decade, with years covered and the average per year
Decade	Births registered	Years covered	A year
2000s	3	1 of 10	3
2010sbusiest	22	5 of 10	4
2020s	8	2 of 10	4

Across England and Wales · Girls, the 2010s were its busiest decade — the 5 years of it this list covers, averaging 4 births a year.

See the names England and Waleshas recorded the most births with →

Tessie appears in

Groupings this name qualifies for under their own stated rules, from the same official statistics shown above.

Popularity data

Official popularity data is available for 3 regions, from 2005 to 2021. Highest recorded position: #350 in Northern Ireland in 2021.

Tessie's recorded popularity observations by year, region and administrative category, including rank, registered births, source confidence and when each region's data was last reviewed.
Year	Region	Category	Rank	Births registered	Confidence	Status
2021	England and Wales	female	#3961	5	High	Verified
2020	England and Wales	female	#5493	3	High	Verified
2019	England and Wales	female	#4686	4	High	Verified
2018	England and Wales	female	#5666	3	High	Verified
2016	England and Wales	female	#3609	6	High	Verified
2015	England and Wales	female	#3615	6	High	Verified
2014	England and Wales	female	#5691	3	High	Verified
2005	England and Wales	female	#4798	3	High	Verified
2021	Northern Ireland	female	#350	4	High	Verified
2021	Republic of Ireland	female	#883	3	High	Verified
2018	Republic of Ireland	female	#896	3	High	Verified
2014	Republic of Ireland	female	#876	3	High	Verified

England and Wales hub — collected by Office for National Statistics
Northern Ireland hub — collected by NISRA
Republic of Ireland hub — collected by CSO Ireland

See methodology and data sources for how popularity data is collected and what "confidence" means.

What the record shows

Recorded by 3 registrars between 2005 and 2021, ranked in 8 years of that period.

Its highest recorded position is #350, first reached in 2021.

Its largest count from any one registrar is 6 births, registered in England and Wales in 2015.

Its record falls into 3 separate stretches, with a longest absence of 8 years.

A second registrar first ranked it in 2014, and 16 years separate the first registrar to record it from the last.

Every figure here is counted from the seven official registrars Namewise holds. A position is only ever a place within the list that published it, and a record that thins or stops is a fact about what registrars printed — never about how many children received the name.

3decades with a ranked yearRecorded in 3 decades →
4 yearslongest unbroken run of ranked years
3separate stretches the record falls into3 separate stretches →
8 yearslongest absence inside the recorded period4 to 9 years missing →
#350position in 2021, its most recent recorded year
16 yearsyears between the first and last registrar to record itAcross 11 to 20 years →
6births registered in its largest year, 2015Under 25 births →

Where to go next

Records with a comparable body of evidence, so the catalogue can be read outward from this one. Each group states the rule it was selected by.

Next in the catalogue

The records either side of this one alphabetically.

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A comparable record

Records held by the same 3 registrars, over a similar number of ranked years, whose highest position is closest to this one. A similar body of evidence — never a claim that the names themselves are alike.

Aislin · #351, 12y
Geri · #351, 8y
Caedan · #358, 7y
Lejla · #358, 13y

Also first recorded in the 2000s

Records whose earliest ranking in Namewise's registrar data also falls between 2000 and 2009.

Reya · #350, 24y
Chizaram · #351, 18y
Kajetan · #352, 19y
Kasen · #348, 16y

Tessie was ranked #350 in Northern Ireland · Girls in 2021. These are the names immediately either side of it on that published list — a fact about the registrar's own output, not a similarity judgement.

Tessie and the names beside it

Two names in the same published list are measured on the same scale, in the same year, by the same registrar — so these are positions that genuinely passed each other, not a similarity judgement. Drawn from the 2,573 names with a recorded popularity standing (common, familiar, uncommon), so a name outside that set could have passed Tessie without appearing here.

Tessie moved ahead of

Cooper Compare
In 2020 they stood at #5493 and #5493 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2021 that had become #3961 and #5581.
Denise Compare
In 2020 they stood at #5493 and #4535 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2021 that had become #3961 and #5581.
Levi Compare
In 2020 they stood at #5493 and #3899 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2021 that had become #3961 and #5581.
Tracy Compare
In 2020 they stood at #5493 and #2449 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2021 that had become #3961 and #5581.

Moved ahead of Tessie

Arlo Compare
In 2017 they stood at #3609 and #4096 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2018 that had become #5666 and #2340.

What's not yet available

Meaning
Origin
Pronunciation
Nicknames and spelling variants

Absence from this list does not mean the name isn't genuinely meaningful or widely used — only that Namewise hasn't sourced and reviewed that content yet. Absence from a specific year or geography above does not prove zero use there either; official statistics only publish names above a minimum threshold.

Official popularity data is available for 3 regions, from 2005 to 2021. Highest recorded position: #350 in Northern Ireland in 2021. Source data last verified 2026-07-22.

Tessie

Tessie at a glance

What the data shows

Popularity journey

Tessie across 2 official records

Tessie by decade in England and Wales · Girls

Tessie appears in

Popularity data

What the record shows

Where to go next

Next in the catalogue

A comparable record

Also first recorded in the 2000s

Names published alongside Tessie

Tessie and the names beside it

Tessie moved ahead of

Moved ahead of Tessie

Tessie at a glance

Tessie across 2 official records

Tessie by decade in England and Wales · Girls

Tessie appears in

What the record shows

Where to go next

Next in the catalogue

A comparable record

Also first recorded in the 2000s

Names published alongside Tessie

Tessie and the names beside it

Tessie moved ahead of

Moved ahead of Tessie